Why Most Men Fail

Most men fail because they speed the bullet without aiming. They fireat random, and so bag no game.
Your pent up mental energy is the powder in the cartridge. Itsusefulness depends upon the man behind the gun.
To succeed in business you must intelligently control and direct (1) your own mental energies , (2) the mental energies of others.
The course of the average man through life is an aimless zigzag. Ithas neither direction nor purpose. It represents wasted energycapriciously expended.

Mental energy is like water: it has a tendency to scatter. It isdiffusive. It seeks release in a thousand different directions at thesame time.

As a boy, first learning to write, you were unable to prevent thesimultaneous squirming of tongue and legs, all ludicrously irrelevantto your purpose of writing. So now, as a business man, unless you havelearned the secret of self mastery, you are unable to concentrate yourefforts, your attention is easily distracted, you exhaust yourself indisplays of passion, you are forever doing things during businesshours that have no relation to your business, you are forever doingthings in connection with your business that do not contribute to itsprogress, you expend just as much energy as the accomplished executiveor the successful "hustler," but you fritter it away in unprofitableactivities.
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